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Our Man Down in Havana: The Story Behind Graham Greene's Cold War Spy NovelHull, Christopher

Our Man Down in Havana: The Story Behind Graham Greene's Cold War Spy Novel


Hull, Christopher

Hardcover. New York, Pegasus Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges.

Record # 2230405


Price: $19.00 

Out in CultureDoty, William G.

Out in Culture


Doty, William G.

softcover. London, Continuum, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 544 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers. Light fading to spine.

Record # 470022


Price: $15.00 

 

Outermost Dream, The - Literary Sketches


Maxwell, William

Paperback. St. Paul, MN, Graywolf, 1st wraps, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages

Record # 55502


Price: $12.00 

Outermost Dream, The : Literary SketchesMaxwell, William

Outermost Dream, The : Literary Sketches


Maxwell, William

Softcover. US, Graywolf Press, 1st, 1997-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 461805


Price: $10.00 

 

Outermost Dream, The: Essays and Reviews


Maxwell, William

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Essays and criticism from noted writer. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Rough-cut fore edge. bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 4450009


Price: $13.00 

 

Owl Creek Letters and Other Correspondence


W. (William Cowper Prime)

Hardcover. New York , Baker & Scribner, 1st, 1848, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages. Hardcover. Embossed brown cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. Light fraying to bottom of spine. Foxing to preliminary pages, light foxing to some pages. 2 page sections loose from binding - pages 83-102 and 107-126. previous owner's signature on blank prelim page. Author's first book.

Record # 406595


Price: $113.00 

 

Oxford History of English Literature: English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, 1600-1660.


Bush, Douglas

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 2nd, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 680 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and slight bumping on edges of spine. Minor foxing on dust jacket, along spine on front and rear endpages, and around all edges. Otherwise, inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 852595


Price: $15.00 

 

Oxford History of English literature: English Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century


Sutherland, James

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 589 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering. Edges of spine slightly bumped, otherwise no visible wear to cover. Some foxing on dust jacket, spine at front and rear endpage, and edges of pages. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy. Edited by Bonamy Dobree and Norman Davis.

Record # 852594


Price: $18.00 

 

Pa Chin and His Writings - Chinese Youth Between the Two Revolutions


Lang, Olga

Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ., 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 402 pages.

Record # 67251


Price: $30.00 

Pablo Neruda: A Passion for LifeFeinstein, Adam

Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life


Feinstein, Adam

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury USA, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 510 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Black and white photographs throughout.

Record # 471817


Price: $23.00 

 

Pact with Silence, A: Art and Thought in the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine


Rubin, David Lee

Hardcover. Columbus, OH, Ohio State University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages. White cloth, black lettering. Very good pictorial dust jacket is price clipped with faded spine.

Record # 803587


Price: $8.00 

Pact, The : My friendship with Isak DinesenBj

Pact, The : My friendship with Isak Dinesen


Bj

Hardcover. US, Louisiana State University Press, 2nd printing, 1983-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 169 pages. Light sun-fade to dust jacket spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461814


Price: $10.00 

 

Pageant of Tamil Literature, The


Meenakshisundaran, T.P.

Hardcover. Madras, Sekar Pathippagam, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 126 pages, blue boards with decorative pattern, green cloth spine. Dust jacket with edgewear. The author was a professor at Madurai University.

Record # 404872


Price: $75.00 

 

Pages From a Cold Island


Exley, Frederick

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st , 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 51992


Price: $25.00 

 

Palm Sunday


Vonnegut, Kurt

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte, 1st , 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, remainder spray, bottom edge

Record # 56365


Price: $18.00 

 

Papa - A Personal Memoir


Hemingway, M.D., Gregory H.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 3rd, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Preface by Norman Mailer. A personal biography by his son. Dj price clipped

Record # 56359


Price: $15.00 

 

Paper Trail


Dorris, Michael

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 889


Price: $18.00 

 

Paradise of Bombs, The


Sanders, Scott Russell

Hardcover. Athens, University of Georgia, 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 155 pages, minor dust jacket edge fade, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 53109


Price: $10.00 

 

Paradise, Piece by Piece


Peacock, Molly

Hardcover. US, Riverhead Hardcover, 1st, 1998-05-04, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 337 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463847


Price: $10.00 

 

Paris and the Nineteenth Century


Prendergast, Christopher

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Blackwell Publishers, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 283 page. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. Gilt lettering to spine, light bumping on corner, light pencil markings. Otherwise, bright, tight copy. Black and white pictures in center.

Record # 30041


Price: $44.00 

 

Paris and Vienne: Translated from the French & Printed by William Caxton. Early English Text Society 234 (SIGNED COPY)


Leach, MacEdward

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press , 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. brown cloth stamped in gilt, 120 pages. INSCRIBED BY LEACH on the front fly leaf. Originally published by Caxton in 1485, Paris & Vienne marked a change in the style of Literature being written in Europe at the time. Instead of tales of Knightly Romance & Chivalry a move was made towards more realistic down to Earth tales, closer to actual life. Clean, bright copy, no dust jacket.

Record # 411549


Price: $38.00 

 

Paris Review, The - Summer, 1984


Plimpton (Editor), George/Milan Kundera, Arthur Koestler, Edna O'Brien, E. L. Doctorow & Philip Levine

Softcover. Flushing, NY, Deborah S. Pease/The Paris Review, First Edition, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 227 pages. Softcover. Illustrated wraps with light wear to edges. Black & white illustrations throughout, including an ads section. Features writers & interviews, Milan Kundera, Arthur Koestler, Edna O'Brien, E. L. Doctorow & Philip Levine. Previous owner's signature lightly erased to preliminary page. Else, clean & unmarked.

Record # 751380


Price: $19.00 

 

Paris Review, The


Gass, William

Hardcover. NY, Eastern News Co., 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback with light edgewear to covers. Interview with William Gass.

Record # 202141


Price: $12.00 

 

Park-Street Papers


Perry, Bliss

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Perry was editor of the Atlantic Monthly at 4 Park Street in Boston. Thus the title of these collected literary pieces. Ex-lib with light stamping, residue, still an attractive gilt-dec. cover.

Record # 62750


Price: $20.00 

 

Parting from Phantoms: Selected Writings, 1990-1994


Wolf, Christa

Hardcover. Chicago, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 315 pages. Slight bump to upper edge of spine, else a clean unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 456742


Price: $15.00 

 

Passage through India


Snyder, Gary

Softcover. San Francisco, Grey Fox Press, 1st thus, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 100 pages, with some black & white photographs. Minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 457445


Price: $15.00 

 

Passeggiate in Magna Grecia


Maiuri, Amedeo

Hardcover. Napoli, L'Arte Tipografica, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 235 pages. Blue cloth, red title label/gilt on spine. Spine is fraying at bottom. B/W pictorial dust jacket shows a lot of edgewear and is stuck to boards in a few spots. A bit of yellowing along pages and foxing along edges, otherwise clean, tight, unmarked.

Record # 804004


Price: $51.00 

Passions and ImpressionsNeruda, Pablo

Passions and Impressions


Neruda, Pablo

Softcover. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st thus, January 15, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 396 pages. Creases to spine. Else very good.

Record # 454276


Price: $8.00 

Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture, 1668-1801Donoghue, Emma

Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture, 1668-1801


Donoghue, Emma

hardcover. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468802


Price: $13.00 

 

Passions of the Mind - Selected Essays


Byatt, A.S.

NJ, Turtle Bay, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 332 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 62422


Price: $15.00 

 

Pasternak: A Pictorial Biography


Ruge, Gerd

Hardcover. New York , McGraw Hill Book Company, 1st thus, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 143 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light wear to price clipped dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 810139


Price: $15.00 

 

Paston Letters, The


Fenn (Ed), John

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, reprint , 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Two volumes. Brown top edge. In very good condition.

Record # 503431


Price: $13.00 

 

Pastoral Days or Memories of a New England Year


Gibson, W. Hamilton

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, Reprint, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 153 pages. Illustrated with black & white engravings by various artists. Previous owners name on prelim. page. Narrow damp stain along very bottom edge of first 8 pages - this does not effect text or illustrations. Front cover features four color illustration with gilt highlights. Spine title with gilt intact. Minor foxing to endpapers. A very nice copy.

Record # 609194


Price: $50.00 

 

Pastoral Dreams


Schorsch, Anita

Softcover. New York, Universe Books, 1st, 1977, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Good, Anthology containing works of art and literature dedicated to the representation of sheep in the pastoral landscape. 71 pages with 37 illustrations (full-color and black/white). Book is in near fine condition, very clean/bright copy. Dust jacket is in good condition, some curling on the edges.

Record # 805536


Price: $10.00 

 

Patagonia Revisited


Chatwin, Bruce/Paul Theroux

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 62 pages. Black & white illustrations by Kyffin Williams. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610829


Price: $25.00 

 

Pathway to God in Hindi Literature


Ranade, R. D.

Hardcover. Bombay, Adhyatma Vidya Mandir, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 405 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket worn, with chipping along edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 610992


Price: $63.00 

 

Pathway to God in Kannada Literature


Ranade, R. D.

Softcover. Bombay, India, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages. Photo of Dr. Ranade in front of first chapter. Some spotting, edgewear and wear along spine of covers. Minor foxing along front hinge. A few pages creased in back. Good reading copy.

Record # 856096


Price: $31.00 

 

Patrick White: A Life


Marr, David

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st US, 1992-02-11, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 727 pagers, b&w photos. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463793


Price: $11.00 

Patrology (vol. 1- vol. 3)Quasten, Johannes

Patrology (vol. 1- vol. 3)


Quasten, Johannes

Hardcover. Utrecht-Brussels, Spectrum Publishers, 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, All volumes: Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering along spine. Previous owner's signature stamp on front end papers. Blue remainder spray, top edge. Some tinting to end papers (vol. 1 & 3) Vol 1: 349 pages. Missing dust jacket. Vol 2: 450 pages. Tinting to dust jacket. Dust jacket also torn with tape marks on underside. Vol 3: 605 pages. Tinting to dust jacket. Tape on underside of dust jacket. Spine cracked at half title page.

Record # 855812


Price: $125.00 

 

Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature


Jackendoff, Ray

Hardcover. New York, Basic Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Crisp, clean copy in great condition.

Record # 852654


Price: $18.00 

 

Paul Muldoon


Kendall, Tim

Softcover. Chester Springs, PA, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 258 pages. Small ink-mark to top edge, slight indentation to rear cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453079


Price: $12.00 

Pauline Autobiography: Toward a New UnderstandingLyons, George

Pauline Autobiography: Toward a New Understanding


Lyons, George

Softcover. Atlanta, Ga., Society of Biblical Literature, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 459237


Price: $15.00 

Pauses : autobiographical reflections of 101 creators of children's booksHopkins, Lee Bennett

Pauses : autobiographical reflections of 101 creators of children's books


Hopkins, Lee Bennett

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 233 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460632


Price: $11.00 

Peguy and Les Cahiers de la Quinzaine Halevy, Daniel

Peguy and Les Cahiers de la Quinzaine


Halevy, Daniel

Hardcover. New York, Longmans Green & Co., 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 303 pages. Literary criticism by a noted Catholic poet b/w portrait frontispiece, very good+, poor worn torn tape-repaired dj, brown cloth.

Record # 415162


Price: $15.00 

 

Pen and Ink - Papers on Subjects of More or Less Importance


Matthews, Brander

Hardcover. New York, Longmans, Green, 1st, 1888, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 229 pages. One of 110 copies on Van Gelder hand-made paper - this being hand numbered #42. Covers worn with rubbed edges and bumped corners. Spine label chipped. Front hinge paper cracked. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 608469


Price: $25.00 

 

Pen Names and Personalities


Marble, Annie Russell

Hardcover. NY, D.Appleton, 1st , 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Spine cloth faded, pages yellowed, otherwise, nice copy.

Record # 53442


Price: $6.00 

 

Penchants & Places: Essays and Criticisms


Leithauser, Brad

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Deckled fore edge. Very clean book, bright inside. In excellent condition.

Record # 30784


Price: $15.00 

 

Penchants and Places: Essays and Criticism


Leithauser, Brad

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 1995-02-21, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 463931


Price: $10.00 

PenthesileaKleist, Heinrich von(Translator)

Penthesilea


Kleist, Heinrich von (Translator)

Hardcover. New York, Harper, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471565


Price: $44.00 

 

People Have More Fun Than Anybody - A Centennial Celebration of Drawings and Writings by James Thurber


Thurber, James

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Ed. by Michael J. Rosen. 169 pages.

Record # 63232


Price: $18.00 

 

People Have More Fun Than Anybody: A Centennial Celebration of Drawings and Writings by James Thurber


Thurber, James

Hardcover. US, Harcourt, 1st, 1994-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 169 pages, b&w drawings. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 463802


Price: $10.00 

 

People, People Everywhere - Footprints of a Wanderer


David, Bob

Hardcover. NY, F.A. Stokes, 1st, 1936, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. A collection of articles which first ran in the New York Sun.

Record # 55891


Price: $18.00 

 

Perfect Murder - A Study in Detection


Lehman, David

Hardcover. New York, Free Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 242 pages. Dust jacket worn with small tears at top of spine and some light fading. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607787


Price: $12.00 

 

Perfect Stranger, The - A Memoir


Kauanagh, P. J.

Hardcover. St.Paul, MN , Graywolf Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53026


Price: $18.00 

Perfect Stranger, The : A MemoirKavanagh, P. J.

Perfect Stranger, The : A Memoir


Kavanagh, P. J.

Hardcover. US, Graywolf Pr, 1st, 1989-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 213 pages. Light shelf-wear and sunning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461813


Price: $10.00 

 

Perigord (SIGNED)


Maurois, Andre

Paris, Hachette, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, INSCRIBED BY MAUROIS ON HALF TITLE PAGE, French text, A travel book. B&W , color photos by Hugues O'Heguerty. Dust jacket w/ light edgewear

Record # 300270


Price: $40.00 

 

Perseus and the Gorgon


Hulst, Cornelia Steketee

Hardcover. La Salle, IL, Open Court Publishing, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 221 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Heavy gilt on front cover and lettering on spine. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to edges.

Record # 2233327


Price: $15.00 

 

Persistence of Modernism, The: Loss and Mourning in the Twentieth Century


Detloff, Madelyn

Hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 213 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges.

Record # 2233440


Price: $44.00 

 

Personal Record (1920-1972) of his two worlds: the inner circles of literary London from the time of the Bloomsbury group-and rural Spain from the days of the Republic through the Civil War and its aftermath


Brenan, Gerald

NY, Knopf, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with light edgewear and price clipped. Black & white photos and illustrations.

Record # 202599


Price: $18.00 

 

Personality of Thoreau, The


Sanborn, F.B.

Hardcover. Boston, Charles E. Goodspeed, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 71 pages, number 410 of a 500. French hand-made paper, printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Illustrated with one plate and two facsimiles of Thoreau's journal. Gray-green boards with a beige cloth spine with a paper label. Spine and covers darkening, light shelf wear.

Record # 412416


Price: $75.00 

 

Petite Folie Collective


Corvin, Michel and Copi

Hardcover. Paris, Tchou, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 253 pages, b&w cartoon drawings by Copi. White cloth covers with black design. A collection of quotes from writers of the Surrealist movement in France. Long preface by Corvin. INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR (HIS WITH A SKETCH OF A BIRD) to Roger Shattuck, author and chronicler of the period. Publishers complimentary card laid in. Small tan stain to cloth at top of front cover, otherwise very good.

Record # 403415


Price: $80.00 

Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of ImmaturityPosnock, Ross

Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity


Posnock, Ross

Hardcover. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1st, September 13, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 301 pages. Front flap of dust jacket slightly bent; sticker residue on rear cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 453246


Price: $18.00 

 

Philip Roth


Rodgers Jr., Bernard R.

Hardcover. Boston, Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages, hardcover. Criticism and interpretations of the works of Philip Roth. Mild age toning to text block top edge. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951762


Price: $19.00 

 

Philosopher Pickett


Powell, Lawrence Clark

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 178 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Three black-and-white illustrations, plus frontispiece. Tanning along spine of dust jacket. Water stains on front and rear dust jacket covers, cloth cover and front and rear end paper and flyleaf. Also some water staining along top edge and on frontispiece and title page. Light foxing on front and rear end paper and flyleaf and fore edge. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 856128


Price: $44.00 

 

Philosophical Biographer, The - Doubt and Dialectic in Johnson's Lives of the Poets


Maner, Martin

Hardcover. Athens, University of Georgia, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 187 pages. Cloth boards. Dust jacket spine faded. Otherwise a nice clean, tight copy.

Record # 510437


Price: $6.00 

 

Philosophy: An Introduction Through Literature


Kleiman , Lowell, Stephen Lewis

Paperback. St. Paul, Minnesota, Paragon House, 1st paperback, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 618 pages. Minor spine edge wear, otherwise, a very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852531


Price: $18.00 

 

Phoenix Award of the Children's Literature Association 1985-1989


Helbig, Alethea and Agnes Perkins

Hardcover. Metuchen, NJ, Scarecrow Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Commentary on works by Leon Garfield, Rosemary Sutcliff, Helen Cresswell, others. Bibliographies. 166 pages.

Record # 59833


Price: $10.00 

Picnic, LightningCollins, Billy

Picnic, Lightning


Collins, Billy

Softcover. PIttsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages. Softcover. Full number line starts with 1. Some light fading along cover edges. Minor bump to bottom right corner. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613966


Price: $31.00 

 

Pictures & Conversations


Bowen, Elizabeth

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, ex-lib, her last book

Record # 7243


Price: $12.00 

 

Pictures and Legends from Normany and Brittany


Macquoid, Thomas & Katharine, Illust. by: Thomas R. Macquoid

Hardcover. Piccadilly, Chatto and Windus, 1st, 1879, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages, plus 36 pages of list of books from publisher. Gilt decorated cover, title on spine and top edge. With 34 illustrations by Thomas R. Macquoid. Previous owner's signature on front front fly leaf, corner and edge wear. Slight foxing throughout and faded spine. Otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 852829


Price: $50.00 

 

Piece of My Mind, A


Wilson, Edmund

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Cudahy, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, reflections at sixty

Record # 2032


Price: $18.00 

 

Piece of My Mind, A


Wilson, Edmund

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Cudahy, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, reflections at sixty

Record # 6339


Price: $18.00 

 

Pieces of My Mind: Essays and Criticism 1958-2002


Kermode, Frank

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 466 pages. light edgewear and scarring to dust jacket, remainder line to bottom edge, light soil to front end paper. Neat, tight copy.

Record # 458556


Price: $13.00 

 

Pied Piper Syndrome and other Essays, The


Hunter, Mollie

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Essays on writing for children, 118 pgs.

Record # 70552


Price: $18.00 

Piers Plowman, a Reference GuideDiMarco,Vincent

Piers Plowman, a Reference Guide


DiMarco,Vincent

Hardcover. Boston, MA, G.K. Hall & Co., 1st Edition, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages. Hardcover. Maroon cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages clean, binding tight, spine straight. excellent condition.

Record # 33547


Price: $63.00 

 

Piers the Plowman


Langland, William/Margaret Williams (Translator)

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 366 pages. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Green cloth cover with fading along edges. Dust jacket with wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610681


Price: $15.00 

 

Pilgrim in the Ruins


Tolson, Jay

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The life of Walker Percy

Record # 6163


Price: $18.00 

 

Pilgrim's Progress, The


Bunyan, John, Illust. by: Edward Ardizzone

London, Faber and Faber , 1st illustrated thus, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 320 pages. Black & white illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Lightly soiled covers.

Record # 503290


Price: $15.00 

 

Pioneers: Narratives of Noah Harris Letts and Thomas Allen Banning, 1825-1865


Angle, Paul M.

Hardcover. Chicago, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Lakeside Classic edition. 290 pages, b&w illustrations and maps. Blue covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Foxing to fore-edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850803


Price: $30.00 

 

Plain Dealer, The: One hundred Years in Cleveland


Shaw, Archer H.

Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 402 pages. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Green cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. No dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to covers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856813


Price: $19.00 

Plays of Menander, TheCasson (Ed.), Lionel

Plays of Menander, The


Casson (Ed.), Lionel

Hardcover. New York , New York University Press , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 154 pages in a dust jacket with light wear, clean.

Record # 406269


Price: $15.00 

 

Playwriting Self of Bernard Shaw, The


Bertolini, John A.

Hardcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University Press , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 206 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf.

Record # 405124


Price: $15.00 

 

Ploughshares Fall 1999 : Fiction Issue


Baxter, Charles

Softcover. Ploughshares Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 233 pages, minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456253


Price: $8.00 

 

Poe - Man, Poet and Creative Thinker


Cody, Sherwin

Hardcover. NY, Boni and Liveright, 1st , 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 485 pages. Green cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine. No sj as issued. Hinges slightly fragile, previous owner's stamp on front end paper, else a neat, clean.

Record # 59322


Price: $26.00 

Poem of a Life - A Biography of Louis Zukofsky, TheScroggins, Mark

Poem of a Life - A Biography of Louis Zukofsky, The


Scroggins, Mark

Hardcover. New York, Shoemaker Hoard, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 572 pages. Hardcover. 8 pages of black & white photographs. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613167


Price: $19.00 

 

Poems 1965-1975


Heaney, Seamus

Softcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 228 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Pages with light bump to top right corner. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613439


Price: $100.00 

 

Poems by Alan Seeger


Seeger, Alan

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, Reprint, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 174 pages. Previous owners name at top of front endpaper. Light rubbing to cover corners and edges. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 610540


Price: $19.00 

 

Poems for a Small Planet: Contemporary American Nature Poetry


Pack, Robert/Jay Parini

Hardcover. Hanover, NH, University Press of New England, First Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 301 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Light foxing to top edge. Dust jacket with light wear to edges. Previous owner's stamp to front flyleaf. Otherwise, very clean & unmarked.

Record # 751224


Price: $38.00 

 

Poems From the Virginia Quarterly Review 1925-67


Poetry

Charlottesville, Univ. Press of Virginia, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages.

Record # 65724


Price: $10.00 

 

Poems Here at Home


Riley, James Whitcomb

Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soil and light edgewear. top edge gilt. slight foxing. Black & white illustrations by E.W. Kemble 15th Thousand

Record # 200689


Price: $26.00 

 

Poems of Doctor Zhivago, The


Davie, Donald

Hardcover. Manchester UK, Manchester University Press , 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 204 pages, beige cloth covers. Clean, no dust jacket.

Record # 406250


Price: $19.00 

 

Poems of Robert Browning, The


Browning, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Limited Editions Club, 1st Thus, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Limited Editions Club. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR PETER REDDICK ON LAST PAGE. HAND NUMBERED #794 OF 1500. Spine of crushed blue morocco leather with cover sides of beige linen. Black slipcase shows light wear, with a few minor spots of chipping to paper. A bright, clean copy.

Record # 609651


Price: $50.00 

 

Poems of William Winter, The


Winter, William

New York, Moffat, Yard & Co., 1st Ltd Ed., 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, No. 64 of 150 SIGNED BY WINTER. Frontis portrait of author tipped-in. Ex-lib with bookplate, light residue to end papers, small spine label, still very nice, clean & tight.

Record # 65947


Price: $26.00 

 

Poet Auden, The - A Personal Memoir


Rowse, A.L.

Hardcover. London, Methuen, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 138 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 604303


Price: $11.00 

Poetical Works of John Milton - With Notes, and a Life of the Author - a New Edition - Volume I & II, TheMilton, John

Poetical Works of John Milton - With Notes, and a Life of the Author - a New Edition - Volume I & II, The


Milton, John

Hardcover. Boston, Charles C. Little and James Brown, Reprint, 1845, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Hardcover volumes. Blue cloth covers with fading to spines. Volume I - 371 pages. Foxing to endpapers and some pages. Light pencil marking and marginalia throughout. Moderate wear. Volume II - 478 pages. Foxing to endpapers and some pages. Light pencil marking and marginalia throughout. Moderate wear.

Record # 613973


Price: $156.00 

 

Poetry & Fiction - Essays by Howard Nemerov


Nemerov, Howard

New Brunswick, Rutgers Univ. Press, 2nd, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 380 pages. Dust jacket with short tears, wear to top of front panel, spine fade.

Record # 62380


Price: $25.00 

 

Poetry & Repression: Revisionism from Blake to Stevens


Bloom, Harold

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 293 pages. Dark blue cloth, gilt title on spine. Dark blue dust jacket w/ minor edgewear and marking/rubbing. Former owner's name/date in upper righthand corner of front flyleaf. Newspaper article (review of the book) tucked into front end papers, caused some browning on the endpapers. Pages in great shape.

Record # 803799


Price: $19.00 

 

Poetry and Repression- Revisionism from Blake to Stevens


Bloom, Harold

New Haven, CT., Yale University Press, 1st , 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 293 pages. Light spotting to end papers, some pages with very light crease, otherwise very good.

Record # 302890


Price: $18.00 

 

Poetry and the Age


Jarrell, Randall

Hardcover. London, Faber, Reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 240 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Mild soiling to dust jacket front cover. Light foxing on top edge and on dust jacket front flap. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951115


Price: $31.00 

 

Poetry and the Modern World - A Study of Poetry in England Between 1900 and 1939


Daiches, David

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Univ. of Chicago, 2nd, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 247 pages. Light pencil marking to some pages otherwise VG.

Record # 64276


Price: $19.00 

 

Poetry of Dylan Thomas, The


Olson, Elder

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 164 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name at top right corner, and bookplate opposite half title page. Dust jacket with chipping at top and bottom of spine, closed tears along edges. Jacket now protected with plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611576


Price: $19.00 

 

Poetry of Yevgeny Yevtushenko - Revised and Enlarged Edition, The


Reavey, George

Softcover. New York, October House Inc., Revised, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 274 pages. Softcover. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY EDITOR GEORGE REAVEY ON HALF TITLE PAGE AND ON TITLE PAGE. Covers with darkening to edges. Slight slant to spine. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 612394


Price: $31.00 

Poetry Reviews of Allen Tate 1924-1944 (Southern Literary Studies)Tate, Allen

Poetry Reviews of Allen Tate 1924-1944 (Southern Literary Studies)


Tate, Allen

Hardcover. US, Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1st thus, 1983-02-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 214 pages. Dust jacket spine is severely sun-faded, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461480


Price: $11.00 

Poetry, Narrative, HistoryKermode, Frank

Poetry, Narrative, History


Kermode, Frank

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Blackwell Pub, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some wear to dust jacket. Large scratch to dust jacket rear. Previous owner's inscription within. Otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 471457


Price: $10.00 

 

Poets + People


Norman, Charles

Hardcover. Indianapolis , Bobbs - Merrill, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pgs, light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 70681


Price: $20.00 

 

Poets and Poetry of Vermont


Hemenway (Editor), Abby Maria

Hardcover. Rutland, George A. Tuttle & Company, 1st, 1858, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 400 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Damp stain along edges of pages. Tanning to pages. Cloth covers with title and decoration in gilt. Fraying to cloth at top and bottom of spine, rubbing along edges. Good reference copy.

Record # 613054


Price: $31.00 

 

Poets' Country: The Homes and Haunts of the Poets


Lang (Ed.), Andrew, Illust. by: F.S. Walker

Hardcover. New York, NY, Dodge Publishing Company, Reprint, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 363 pages. Green-brown cloth hard covers with gilt title and front cover color illustration on paper. Color illustrations. Some staining and discoloration on pages and inside cover.

Record # 604040


Price: $13.00 

 

Poiesis: Structure and Thought


Kitto, H. D. F.

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 407 pages. Teal cloth boards with gilt lettering. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Dust jacket has some shelf wear/rubbing. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855781


Price: $15.00 

 

Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir 1964 to 2006


Vidal, Gore

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 277 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Gore Vidal's memoir. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Slight tear to dust jacket spine at top edge. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952599


Price: $13.00 

Polar (SIGNED)Pearson, T.R.

Polar (SIGNED)


Pearson, T.R.

Hardcover. New York, Viking/Penguin Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket: "(Pearson shows) what life and literature are essentially about. How he can bring that off amidst such hilarity is something of a miracle."

Record # 30297


Price: $31.00 

 

Polished Surface, The - Essays in the Literature of Worldliness


Kronenberger, Louis

New York, Knopf, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 289 pages.

Record # 304795


Price: $19.00 

 

Polished Surface, The - Essays In the Literature of Worldliness


Kronenberger, Louis

hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages.

Record # 64594


Price: $18.00 

 

Politics of Irish Literature, The - From Thomas Davis to W.B. Yeats


Brown, Malcolm

Hardcover. London, G. Allen & Unwin, 1st , 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 55237


Price: $28.00 

 

Polk Conspiracy, The - Murder and Cover-up In the Case of CBS News Correspondent George Polk


Marton, Kati

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 369 pages. Gilt titles on spine. Promotional sticker on front of dust jacket. Dust jacket price clipped. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 68974


Price: $12.00 

 

Pontiff


Thomas, Gordon and Max

London, Granada, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The recent history of the Catholic Church and the last three Popes: Paul VI, John Paul I and John Paul II. 499 pages

Record # 175592


Price: $13.00 

 

Portable Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing


Kirszner, Laurie G.

Softcover. Boston, MA, Wadsworth Publishing, 7th, February 4, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1227 pages. Slight crease to front cover, else a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 457871


Price: $38.00 

 

Portrait of jane Austen, A


Cecil, David

Hardcover. New York, Hill and Wang, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Full color and black & white illustrations. Spine cocked. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609338


Price: $28.00 

 

Portsmouth Point - The Navy in Fiction 1793-1815


Parkinson, C. Northcote

Hardcover. Liverpool, University Press of Liverpool, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 154 pages. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608806


Price: $18.00 

 

Postal Routes


Kirschner, Elizabeth

Paperback. Pittsburgh, Carnegie-Mellon, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Proof. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 604589


Price: $8.00 

Postcolonial Life-Writing: Culture, Politics, and Self-RepresentationMoore-Gilbert, Bart

Postcolonial Life-Writing: Culture, Politics, and Self-Representation


Moore-Gilbert, Bart

Softcover. New York, Routledge, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages. Softcover. Small stain to front flyleaf. Random pencil markings throughout. Otherwise a clean copy with only minor edgewear.

Record # 471344


Price: $19.00 

PotterWalter, Wangerin, Jr., Illust. by: Daniel San Souci

Potter


Walter, Wangerin, Jr., Illust. by: Daniel San Souci

Hardcover. Minneapolis, Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 55 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Daniel San Souci. Clean, unmarked copy with creasing on front dust jacket flap and only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468076


Price: $15.00 

 

Pound: The Little Review : The Letters of Ezra Pound to Margaret Anderson : The Little Review Correspondence


Pound, Ezra

Hardcover. New York, New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1st, January 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Minor sunning to dust jacket spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457945


Price: $19.00 

 

Pourquoi la Nouvelle Critique - Critique english translation Objectivite


Doubrovsky, Serge

Paperback. Paris, Mercure de France, unknown wraps, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 262 pages. Paperback. French text.

Record # 205540


Price: $15.00 

 

Power in Men


Cary, Joyce

Seattle, WA, University of Washington Press, 1st US, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hard cover. 274 pages. Corners rubbed. Dust jacket with chipping, light soiling.

Record # 502111


Price: $12.00 

Power Of Delight, The: A Lifetime In Literature: Essays 1962 2002Bayley, John

Power Of Delight, The: A Lifetime In Literature: Essays 1962 2002


Bayley, John

Hardcover. New York, W W Norton & Co Inc, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 512 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Tight copy.

Record # 471394


Price: $25.00 

 

Practice of Writing, The


Lodge, David

Hardcover. US, Viking Adult, 1st, 1997-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 340 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463927


Price: $10.00 

 

Praises and Dispraises - Poetry and Politics, the 20th Century


Des Pres, Terrence

hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 265 pages. Slight sunning to rear cover of dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 201622


Price: $6.00 

 

Praying for Rain


Weidman, Jerome

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 422 pages. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 609346


Price: $12.00 

 

Praying for Rain


Weidman, Jerome

Hardcover. NY, Harper & row, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 52928


Price: $15.00 

 

Pre-Raphaelite Poets


Stevenson, Lionel

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, 2nd Printing, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 330 pages, dust jacket edge wear and light water damage, faint foxing on edges, otherwise, internally clean and bright.

Record # 457726


Price: $15.00 

 

Preferences in Art, Life, and Literature


Quilter, Harry

Hardcover. London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 404 pages, large volume with heavy paper. Scholarly review of the art and literature of late 19th century England. Harry Quilter (1851-1907) was a critic, journalist, and collector, as well as a practicing artist. He states in the preface that about half of the material in the book originally appeared in various publications over the past several years, although much of it was rewritten. The contents include a history of Pre-Raphaelitism, with sections on such artists as Madox Brown, Rossetti, Holman Hunt, and Millais as well as the "lesser" Pre-Raphaelites. Other chapters are on Amy Levy, Millet Watts, Wilkie Collins, and much more. With numerous full page b&w plates with tissue guards throughout. This is a LIBRARY BINDING, maroon cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine, with handlettered numbers above it. Bookplate on inside cover and paper residue to rear end papers .Interior is clean, very good. Heavy item will require additional postage for International orders.

Record # 411032


Price: $150.00 

 

Presenting Robert Cormier: From I am the Cheese to Beyond the Chocolate War--Insights into the Life and Work of a Leading Novelist for Young Adults.


Campbell, Patricia J.

Hardcover. Boston, Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 152 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket price clipped, in good shape, slightly yellow with age and wrapped in protective brodart. Super clean and bright inside. In excellent condition.

Record # 30803


Price: $10.00 

 

Preserve and Create; Essays in Marxist Literary Criticism.: Essays in Marxist Literary Criticism


Leroy, Gaylord C. (Author, Compiler)

Hardcover. New York, Humanities Pr, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 276 pages, dust jacket worn with edge fade and rub, light pencil markings throughout, otherwise, tight and bright copy.

Record # 457171


Price: $12.00 

 

Pretexts - Reflections on Literature and Morality


Gide, Andre

Hardcover. NY, Meridan Books, 1st US, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Ed. by Justin O'Brien. Dj with light soil, spine fade. Previous owner's embossed stamp front end paper

Record # 54403


Price: $20.00 

 

Price and Reference Guide to Books Written by Edgar Rice Burroughs


Bergen Jr., James A.

Softcover. Beaverton OR, Golden Lion Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages, 300 b&w illustrations.

Record # 405929


Price: $25.00 

 

Prince-Errant and Evocator of Horizons: A Reading of R. B. Cunninghame Graham


Haymaker, Richard E.

Hardcover. Kingsport, TN, Kingsport Press, limited, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Limited Edition. 374 pages, b&w frontispiece. Red cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Ex-lib w/ stamp on top edge, pocket mark on front fly leaf. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851061


Price: $15.00 

 

Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics


Preminger, Alex

Paperback. NJ, Princeton University, Enlarged edited wraps, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, previous owner's signature on back of wraps. 992 pgs, light wear to wraps old price stamped on 1st page, otherwise very good.

Record # 106015


Price: $18.00 

 

Principals of Playmaking, The


Matthews, Brander

New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages. deckled foredge, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise in good condition.

Record # 176019


Price: $18.00 

 

Private Diaries of Stendhal, The


Sage (Editor), Robert

Hardcover. Garden City, NEW YORK, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 570 pages, translated and edited by Robert Sage. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, light dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 854652


Price: $10.00 

 

Private History of Awe, A


Sanders, Scott Russell

Hardcover. New York, North Point Press, First Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages. Hardcover. Grey cloth boards with silver titles to navy cloth spine. Dust jacket with light wear to edges, small tears & price-clipped. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751196


Price: $15.00 

 

Private Lives In the Imperial City


Leonard, John

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 209 pages, collected essays. Light remainder stamp to top edge.

Record # 2483


Price: $12.00 

 

Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters - Second Series.


N/A

Hardcover. Boston, Amer. Academy of Art & Letters, 1st , 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Numbers 1-5. The annual proceedings for 1951-1955, bound in hardcover. Each with many speeches, addresses by notable American writers. 416 pages.

Record # 57254


Price: $80.00 

 

Professor at the Breakfast Table, The


Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Hardcover. London, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 315 pages. Small format book measures - 5" X 3 1/2". Leather spine with raised bands. Title in gilt. Marbled boards and endpapers. Previous owners name stamped on front endpaper. Light foxing to preliminary pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610380


Price: $38.00 

 

Prolific & the Devourer, The


Auden, W.H.

Hardcover. NY, Ecco, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 3998


Price: $12.00 

Prose and Verse, OnStephens, James

Prose and Verse, On


Stephens, James

Hardcover. New York, The Bowling Green Press, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 41 pages. Hardcover. Limited to 1,000 copies. Book measures: 4.75" X 7.75". Clear plastic wrapper over covers. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 614151


Price: $31.00 

Prose Writings of Dylan Thomas, The Peach, Linden

Prose Writings of Dylan Thomas, The


Peach, Linden

Hardcover. Totowa, N.J., Barnes & Noble Imports, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket and faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 459119


Price: $14.00 

 

Provisions: A Reader from 19th-Century American Women


Fetterley, Judith (Editor)

Softcover. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 467 pages. Light wear to edges of cover. Inside is clean and unmarked. A nice copy.

Record # 455590


Price: $12.00 

 

Psyche As Hero - Female Heroism and Fictional Form


Edwards, Lee R.

Paperback. Middletown, CT., Wesleyan University Press, Rep. wraps, 1987 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages. Paperback.

Record # 302381


Price: $12.00 

 

Psychological Novel - 1900-1950, The


Edel, Leon

Hardcover. New York, Haskell House, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 147 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610075


Price: $15.00 

 

Psychology, Religion and Ethics in Galdos' Novels: Quest for Authenticity


Penuel, Arnold M.

Softcover. Lanham MD, University Press of America, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 193 pages, clean, bright copy.

Record # 410592


Price: $25.00 

 

Pterodactyl Rose - Poems of Ecology


Heyen, William

Paperback. St. Louis, MO, Time Being Books , 1st wraps, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback.

Record # 302128


Price: $12.00 

 

Publishing Experience, The (SIGNED)


Canfield, Cass

Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 73 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Inscribed and signed on front fly leaf. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233498


Price: $19.00 

 

Pundits, Poets, & Wits - An Omnibus of American Newspaper Columns


Meyer, Karl E.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 458 pages. Hardcover. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 63981


Price: $16.00 

 

Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine, The


Twain, Mark, Philip Stead, Illust. by: Erin Stead

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 152 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Color illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers and front cover board. Very clean inside and out. In excellent condition.

Record # 30731


Price: $23.00 

 

Purple Decades, The: A Reader


Wolfe, Tom

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 396 pages, b&w drawings by Wolfe.

Record # 405137


Price: $19.00 

 

Pushcart Prize, The - 1988-89 - Best of the Small Presses


Henderson (Ed.), Bill

Hardcover. Wainscott, New York, Pushcart Press, 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover edition 425 pages. Signed letter from editor laid-in. Bottom corner bumped.

Record # 60219


Price: $15.00 

 

Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses 1994-1995


Henderson ( Ed.), Bill

Hardcover. Wainscott, NY, Pushcart Press, 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover edition.

Record # 60227


Price: $8.00 

 

Pushkin on Literature


Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich

Hardcover. US, Stanford University Press/Athlone Press, revised, 1986-07-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 554 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, light yellowing and scratching to dust jacket rear cover, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462760


Price: $23.00 

 

Pushkin's Button


Vitale, Serena

Hardcover. US, Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 1st US, 1999-03-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 355 pages. Minor edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462920


Price: $10.00 

 

Pushkin


Feinstein, Elaine

Hardcover. US, Ecco Press, 1st, 1999-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 309 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 463085


Price: $10.00 

 

Quarterly Review of Literature - Poetry Series III


Weiss (Ed.), T. & R.

Paperback. Princeton, NJ, QRL, 1st wraps, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Poetry by So Chongju (transl. by D.R. McCann), Phyllis Thompson (What the Land Gave), David Barton (Surviving the Cold), Mairi MacInnes (Herring, Oatmeal, Milk and Salt), Carlos Nejar (transl. from Portuguese by M. Picciotto).

Record # 600390


Price: $15.00 

Quotable Lewis, TheRoot, Jerry (Editor)

Quotable Lewis, The


Root, Jerry (Editor)

Hardcover. Carol Stream, IL, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., reprint , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 651 pages. Gilt titles and decoration on spine. Slight tear to top corner of dust jacket, else clean, tight copy.

Record # 466622


Price: $10.00 

 

R.L.S. - Stevenson's Letters to Charles Baxter


Ferguson, Delancey and Marshall Waingrow

Hardcover. New Haven, Yal Univ. Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 385 pages, dust jacket with edgewear and closed tears, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 55464


Price: $16.00 

 

R.L.S. Stevenson's Letters to Charles Baxter


Ferguson, DeLancey & Marshall Waingrow

Hardcover. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 385 pages. Includes a calendar of Stevenson's life. Writing in pencil on front endpaper. Light foxing on top edge. Otherwise, internally clean. Overall tight copy.

Record # 401914


Price: $15.00 

 

Radclyffe Hall at The well of loneliness: A sapphic chronicle


Dickson, Lovat

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 236 pages, minor foxing on top edge and previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456762


Price: $12.00 

 

Ramus and Talon Inventory: A short-title inventory of the published works of Peter Ramus (1515-1572) and of Omer Talon (1510-1562) in their original and in their variously altered forms, with related material.


Ong, Walter J.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 558 pages. Single hardcover volume. Title: 'Ramus and Talon Inventory - A short-title inventory of the published works of Peter Ramus (1515-1572) and of Omer Talon (1510-1562) in their original and in their variously altered forms.' Green cloth with spine title in gilt. Light gray dust jacket with some darkening to spine and edges, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 404868


Price: $75.00 

 

Randall Jarrell


Shapiro, Karl

Paperback. Washington, DC, Library of Congress, 1st wraps, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A lecture given at the Library of Congress in 1966 with a bibliography of Jarrell material in the library's collection. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf -. 48 pages. Paperback edition.

Record # 62424


Price: $15.00 

 

Random Rhymes and Rhapsodies of the Rail


Maguire, Shandy

Hardcover. Cleveland , Shandy Maguire, 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 412 pages. Hardcover. Missing front and rear endpapers. Front and rear hinges tender. Red cloth covers with gilt titles on front cover and spine. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 610976


Price: $19.00 

 

Raymond Chandler: A Descriptive Bibliography (SIGNED)


Bruccoli, Matthew J.

Hardcover. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 146 pages, blue cloth covers stamped in silver. SIGNED BY BRUCCOLI on title page.

Record # 407071


Price: $100.00 

 

Reading America: Essays on American Literature


Donoghue, Denis

Hardcover. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, First Edition, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover Red boards with gilt titles to black cloth spine. Deckled edge. Small spot to right edge, one page corner folded, otherwise clean. Dust jacket with light wear to edges and faint toning. A nice copy.

Record # 6670092


Price: $13.00 

 

Reading America


Donoghue, Denis

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, September 12, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 320 pages. Slight soiling, edgewear to dust jacket else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457294


Price: $8.00 

 

Reading Andreas Gryphius: Critical Trends 1664-1993


Metzger, Erika, Michael M. Metzger

Hardcover. Columbia, SC, Camden House. Inc., 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 155 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in buff cloth, black title on spine and front cover board. A touch of foxing to fop edge. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition. This book traces the widely varying critical reception of Andreas Gryphius (1616-1664), the greatest German poet of the seventeenth century.

Record # 32034


Price: $25.00 

 

Reading becomes a necessity of life: Material and cultural life in rural New England, 1780-1835


Gilmore, William J

Hardcover. Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 538 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, pencil check marks in margin to a handful pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 458522


Price: $50.00 

 

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books


Nafisi, Azar

Hardcover. New York, March 25, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 347 pages. Very good.

Record # 452248


Price: $8.00 

 

Reading the Other: Novels and the Problem of Other Minds


Rifelj, Carol de Dobday

Hardcover. US, University of Michigan Press, 1st, 1993-03-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 247 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light edgewear and tearing to upper edge of dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464581


Price: $25.00 

 

Readings


Birkerts, Sven

Paperback. Saint Paul, MN, Graywolf, 1st wraps, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 263 pages. Paperback.

Record # 207987


Price: $12.00 

 

Realism's Empire: Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel


Baker, Geoffrey

Hardcover. Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, 246 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Laminated boards. Clean, tight copy. Light edge wear to covers.

Record # 2233445


Price: $19.00 

 

Realms of Strife: The Memoirs of Juan Goytisolo 1957-1982


Goytisolo; Bush, Peter (Translator), Juan;

Hardcover. San Francisco, North Point Press , rep, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 261 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean. toght copy. Minor wear to edges. Small abrasion on fore edge bottom.

Record # 2233492


Price: $15.00 

 

Recitative


Merrill, James

Paperback. San Francisco, North Point Press, 1st wraps, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A gathering of 40 years worth of prose pieces by the distingtuished poet. 202 pages. Paperback.

Record # 67255


Price: $18.00 

Reckless DisregardAdler, Renata

Reckless Disregard


Adler, Renata

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 1986-10-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 243 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, and light tanning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461481


Price: $10.00 

 

Recognition of Robert Frost - Twenty-Fifth Anniversary


Thornton, Richard (Ed.), Illust. by: Illustrated

New York, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages. B&W illustrations.

Record # 302501


Price: $20.00 

 

Recollections of Mr. James Lenox of New York and the Formation of His Library


Stevens, Henry

Hardcover. London, Henry Stevens & Son, 1st, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 211 pages, three-quarters white cloth with marbled boards. Illustrated with 3 engraved portraits with tissue guards. Frontispiece plate is loose, otherwise very good, clean and tight.

Record # 402744


Price: $50.00 

Recollections of Virginia WoolfNoble, Joan Russell

Recollections of Virginia Woolf


Noble, Joan Russell

Hardcover. US, W. Morrow, 1st, 1972-01-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 207 pages. Hardcover. Clean copy, with faded cloth covers on top edge, gilt lettering. Light wear and small tears on top spine to dust jacket.

Record # 466771


Price: $11.00 

 

Red Randall on New Guinea


Bowen, R. Sidney

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 208 pages. Tinting to pages. Remainder spray to top edge. Dust jacket has some spotting on front flap and stamps to underside. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855719


Price: $19.00 

 

Redress of Poetry, The


Heaney, Seamus

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Nobel Prize sticker on front cover of dust jacket. Clean and unmarked inside.

Record # 2230389


Price: $25.00 

 

Redress of Poetry, The


Heaney, Seamus

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1995, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 212 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page in black pen. Pages all near fine. White boards and black cloth spine with gilt lettering. Spine is very lightly toned at bottom and top edge. B/W pictorial dust jacket with photo of the poet on back. A few tiny fox spots, in acetate protector. Gold "Winner of the Novel Prize in Literature" on front.

Record # 803231


Price: $200.00 

 

Reference and Generality: An Examination of Some Medieval and Modern Theories


Geach, Peter Thomas

Hardcover. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 202 pages, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf and front cover, dust jacket edge wear and fade, price clipped, otherwise, internally very clean and bright copy.

Record # 855354


Price: $38.00 

 

Refiguring the Map of Sorrow - Nature Writing and Autobiography


Allister, Mark

Hardcover. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609167


Price: $15.00 

 

Reflections at Fifty


Farrell, James T.

Hardcover. NY, Vanguard, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, large chunk gone from top of dust jacket spine, another from middle of front right of dust jacket. Price clipped.

Record # 106494


Price: $15.00 

 

Reiselieder mit b

Softcover. US, Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt, 1st, 2001-07-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 627 pages. Text in German. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464381


Price: $25.00 

 

Relationship of Painting & Literature, The


Huddleston , Eugene L.

Hardcover. Detroit Michigan, Gale Research Company, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, xxiii + 184 pages. Volume 4 of the American Studies Information Guide Series. Red pictorial boards with gilt titles to front and spine, no dust jacket. Light wear to spine still very good.

Record # 605843


Price: $26.00 

 

Religious Sonnets of Dylan Thomas, The


Kleinman, H.H.

Hard Back . Berkeley, CA, University of California, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf.

Record # 200866


Price: $18.00 

Reluctantly: Autobiographical EssaysCarruth, Hayden

Reluctantly: Autobiographical Essays


Carruth, Hayden

Softcover. Port Townsend, WA, Copper Canyon Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 165 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light edgewear to wrappers, dog-ears to a few pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 459562


Price: $31.00 

 

Remembeing Randall - A Memoir of Poet, Critic and Teacher Randall Jarrell


Jarrell, Mary von Schrader

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 54198


Price: $18.00 

 

Remembering John Masefield


Lamont, Corliss

Hardcover. NJ, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good,

Record # 4753


Price: $12.00 

 

Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker - The Invisible Art of Editing


Mehta, Ved

Hardcover. Woodstock, NY, Overlook Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 64037


Price: $25.00 

 

Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker


Mehta, Ved

Hardcover. US, Overlook, 1st, 1998-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 414 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463758


Price: $13.00 

Remembering the Kanji II: A Systematic Guide to Reading Japanese CharactersHeisig, James W.

Remembering the Kanji II: A Systematic Guide to Reading Japanese Characters


Heisig, James W.

Softcover. Japan Publications Trading, reprint, 1990, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 395 pages. Slight wear to covers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453776


Price: $28.00 

 

Reminiscences (2 Volume Set)


McCarthy, Justin

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 387 pages (Vol. 1), 424 pages (Vol. 2), hardcover. Two volumes of the reminiscences of Justin McCarthy, M.P. and advocate of home rule for Ireland. Illustrated frontispiece intact. Previous owner's inscription to title page. (Volume 1) Light bumping, edgewear, and light rubbing to both volumes, as well as light age toning to text blocks. Gilted top edges. Tight and clean copies.

Record # 951510


Price: $31.00 

 

Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow, The


Raymond, John

Hardcover. London, England/U.K., The Bodley Head, 2nd, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages, b&w illustrations, portrait of Gronow at frontispiece, dust jacket protected with Mylar, previous owner's book plates, clean, tight copy.

Record # 801639


Price: $9.00 


  

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